Ministry of Education (Burma)

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The Union of Myanmar
Ministry of Education
Minister	Dr Chan Nyein, PhD (Mechanical Engineering)
Deputy Minister	U Myo Nyunt
Deputy Minister	Brigade General Aung Tun Oo
Established date	1950
Departments	- Departnent of Higher Education (Lower Myanmar)
	- Department of Higher Education (Upper Myanmar)
	- Department of Basic Education (1), (2), (3)
Employee	?
Location	Nay Pyi Daw, Pyinmana, Mandalay Division, Myanmar
Website	http://www.myanmar-education.edu.mm

The Ministry of Education (MOE) is the Myanmar government agency responsible for Education in Myanmar.

[edit] Departmental Bodies

The Office Staff
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There are six departments under the Ministry of Education. They are the Office staff, Department of Higher Education (အဆင့္ျမင့္ပညာဦးစီဌာန), Department of Basic Education (အေျခခံပညာဦးစီးဌာန), Department of Myanmar Language Commission (ျမန္မာစာအဖြဲ႕), Department of Myanmar Board of Examinations (ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံစာစစ္အဖြဲ႕) and Myanmar Educational Research Bureau (MERB) (ပညာေရးသုေတသန). The Office Staff of the Ministry of Education is responsible to the Deputy Minister and the Minister. They supervise the implementation of educational programmes, set the educational policies, are responsible for fiscal planning within the ministry and department personnel and administration of the ministry.